Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Occupy Democratshttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/occupy-democrats/Stories or blog posts about Occupy Democrats from Politifact.comen-usFri, 13 Nov 2015 10:59:10 -0500Claims that we&#39;ve heard again...and againhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2015/nov/13/claims-weve-heard-againand-again/This is National Recycling Week. We&rsquo;ll leave it up to schools and civic groups to tout the importance of keeping glass, computers and, yes, newspapers out of landfills. Instead, we&rsquo;re going to look at recycling as it applies to political statements. As in ones that we&rsquo;ve heard and reviewed. And then heard again. And yet again. Just last month, Gov. Scott Walker urged the Republican-controlled Legislature to reform the Government Accountability Board. He tweeted that the agency once &quot;wanted to consider Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler as valid signatures on recall petitions.&quot; The first time we encountered that claim was ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2015/nov/13/claims-weve-heard-againand-again/">>>More</a>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:59:10 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2015/nov/13/claims-weve-heard-againand-again/The PolitiFact Rhode Island Top 10 fact-checks of 2014http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/article/2014/dec/28/politifact-rhode-island-top-10-fact-checks-2014/From beach fees to marijuana, from pensions to slavery, PolitiFact Rhode Island covered a lot of ground in 2014, a year that was also marked by hard-fought political campaigns that generated many dubious claims. Overall, we issued 90 rulings that hit every stop on our Truth-O-Meter, from True to Pants on Fire. As the year ends, we thought we&rsquo;d take a moment to review our most widely-read PolitiFact items of 2014. Here they are, in descending order, as determined by page views on our PolitiFact Rhode Island website: 10. Robert Healey: &quot;I spent only $36.29 on my &nbsp;campaign for governor.&quot; ... <a href="/rhode-island/article/2014/dec/28/politifact-rhode-island-top-10-fact-checks-2014/">>>More</a>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:01:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/article/2014/dec/28/politifact-rhode-island-top-10-fact-checks-2014/Unsupported claim: Ted Cruz took a bribe to file federal lands proposalhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/aug/17/unsupported-claim-ted-cruz-took-bribe-file-federal/Ted Cruz took a bribe? So said a July 11, 2014, Facebook post by Occupy Democrats depicting the second-year Republican senator from Texas as the group&rsquo;s &quot;Sellout Politician of the Day. Its message, brought to our attention by a reader, said: &quot;This is Sen. Ted Cruz, a Koch puppet. He was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would gift or sell them and their allies America&rsquo;s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging.&quot; Occupy Democrats didn&rsquo;t offer evidence of Cruz getting money or another benefit to introduce ... <a href="/texas/article/2014/aug/17/unsupported-claim-ted-cruz-took-bribe-file-federal/">>>More</a>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:45:28 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2014/aug/17/unsupported-claim-ted-cruz-took-bribe-file-federal/